Who Are We?
Who Are Active Bystanders?
Active Bystanders are people who already know, through previous actions or just by how they respond to emergencies, that if they came across a road crash, they would want to pull over and see how they can help. They may not know what to do exactly, but they believe doing something is better than nothing.
Who Are The Prepared Bystanders?
The Prepared Bystanders are an online community of Active Bystanders sharing the common goal of wanting to provide evidence-based, best-practice care to people + pets involved in a road crash. If you consider yourself an Active Bystander, then we might be your Tribe!
Through a series of journalistic-style education films and live Q&A sessions, community members will have their concerns addressed and hopefully feel empowered to provide best-practice care when needed.
Through a series of journalistic-style education films and live Q&A sessions, community members will have their concerns addressed and hopefully feel empowered to provide best-practice care when needed.
Why are we creating a group called The Prepared Bystanders?
For many years, researchers and academics have tried to study bystanders at a road incident but found it difficult to say that what we are doing is helping or just buying time until the "real helpers", the emergency service personnel, get there. If you have stopped to help at a road crash or any accident that has occurred, you know that what we do is valuable, especially to the person who is injured. Even though we are willing to "do something to help", not all of us really know what to do. We simply "hope for the best". Could you sit a Year 12 exam "hoping for the best"? Why are we doing that when people's lives depend on us?
It is important that what we do doesn't make the situation worse for the casualty or anyone around the scene. It is also important that we are confident in a crisis and that we can trust in ourselves and our skills. It is for this reason that I feel a specific training course in post-crash response, that builds on a basic first aid course, would benefit communities. With the increasing number of deaths on the road from 2021 to 2025, if we can't prevent the crash, we may as well try to keep the injured people alive for hospitals to take care of them.
It is important that what we do doesn't make the situation worse for the casualty or anyone around the scene. It is also important that we are confident in a crisis and that we can trust in ourselves and our skills. It is for this reason that I feel a specific training course in post-crash response, that builds on a basic first aid course, would benefit communities. With the increasing number of deaths on the road from 2021 to 2025, if we can't prevent the crash, we may as well try to keep the injured people alive for hospitals to take care of them.
How you can be a part of the action!
You can start by subscribing to our mailing list (see the box below) and then you will be the first to know what's next.
This project is in a fundraising process to set up the administrative structures and make the educational films we have planned. Whilst in this process, we have released films "around" the topics of The Prepared Bystanders in the expectation that we will generate an audience "hanging out" for the project to be launched.
As you may well know, philanthropic funding and donations in our currently tight economy leaves no guarantee that great projects like this, will have a long life. So as to give ourselves a future beyond the initial set up costs, there will be a small subscription fee to grow the project into the future and not require continual philanthropic donations. So, the first films we have released are made on a "no budget" scale to give you a sense of where we are going. You can watch as many of these as you wish, knowing that each week or fortnight we hope to upload a new film.
After watching a few films, you can then choose:
This project is in a fundraising process to set up the administrative structures and make the educational films we have planned. Whilst in this process, we have released films "around" the topics of The Prepared Bystanders in the expectation that we will generate an audience "hanging out" for the project to be launched.
As you may well know, philanthropic funding and donations in our currently tight economy leaves no guarantee that great projects like this, will have a long life. So as to give ourselves a future beyond the initial set up costs, there will be a small subscription fee to grow the project into the future and not require continual philanthropic donations. So, the first films we have released are made on a "no budget" scale to give you a sense of where we are going. You can watch as many of these as you wish, knowing that each week or fortnight we hope to upload a new film.
After watching a few films, you can then choose:
- To make a Tax-Deductible Donation through our fiscal sponsor Documentary Australia (look for the orange QR code on the Welcome page).
- You might know a business who would like to support the project through a formal Sponsorship agreement and have their branding credited at the end of the educational films - ask them to get in touch with us via the contact page.
- Finally, there will be an opportunity for individuals to sign up as Producers and Executive Producers, donate towards the project (this includes 12 months membership) and also be credited at the end of the films in such a role. This opportunity is still in development but don't let that stop you from expressing your interest to us via the contact's page!
